@NewYorker @ruth_franklin maybe it was the era (the 60s) or my having read "lord of the flies", but the story didn't confuse me at all.
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I felt the same when we studied it in school. We basically discussed it as a fable focused upon man’s inhumanity to man. In light of the horrors in the world that made perfect sense to me.
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It was common for my friends and i to read and to to have assigned by teachers books that no middle school would dare touch today. Didn't faze us at all.
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Lively MT
@NewYorker:@ruth_franklin on the torrent of responses after Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" was published: http://nyr.kr/10kJtrvThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This is amazing MT
@NewYorker on the torrent of responses after Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” was published in 1948http://nyr.kr/10kJtrvThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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